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American Foundation
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Gilded Age/American Imperialism
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Plessy v Ferguson
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Progressive Era
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World War I 1914-1919
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Roaring Twenties
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The Great Depression
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World War II
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Attack on Pearl Harbor
The attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise military strike conducted by the Imperial Japanese Navy against the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, on the morning of December 7, 1941 -
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Cold War
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PresidentTruman Orders integration of Armed Forces
In the year 1948 President Truman ordered that the military be desegregated meaning in the military blacks, whites and all races would be treated equally. -
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Modern Civil Rights
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Sweatt v. Painter
The case involved a black men, Heman Marior Sweatt, who was refused admission to the School of law of the University of Texas. -
Brown v Board ofEducation Decision
In the year of 1954 the case of the Brown v Board of education overturned Plessy v Ferguson and made “Separate but equal” illegal in the public school system. -
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In year 1955 a African American Rosa Park refused to surrender her bus seat to a white passenger. -
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The Sixties
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Assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King
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American Crisis and Resurgence
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Modern America
